Ultrafast Acoustic Phonon Dynamics in the Weyl Semimetal TaAs Probed by Time-Resolved X-Ray Diffraction
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Lee, Min-Cheol; Sirica, N.; Teitelbaum, S. W.; Maznev, A.; de la Pena Munoz, G. A.; Krapivin, V.; Huang, Y.; Shi, J.; Tutchton, R.; Zhu, J. X.; Zhao, L. X.; Chen, G. F.; Xu, B.; Yang, R.; Qiu, X. G.; Yarotski, D. A.; Nelson, K. A.; Trigo, M.; Reis, D. A.; Prasankumar, R. P.
- Source
- 2020 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2020 Conference on. :1-2 May, 2020
- Subject
- Photonics and Electrooptics
Phonons
Acoustics
Ultrafast optics
Optical pulses
Oscillators
Optical surface waves
- Language
We utilized ultrafast X-ray diffraction to investigate optically induced strain waves in the Weyl semimetal TaAs, revealing real-time structural oscillations originating from quasi-longitudinal and quasi-shear acoustic phonon modes.